Yes, that one particular spammer keeps showing up and I'm getting sick of it. I like your idea about a report button so that the mods can be more quickly aware of it.

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bthylafh wrote:I see that those two offending posts were deleted, but their accounts were not.

Front page accounts and forum accounts are in the same database. Banning them using the forum mod tools (which I did) bans them from the front page as well. I think the only one who could actually remove the deleted posts in toto is morphine.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

I would suggest that the "report" feature, at least on the front page, include a flagging threshold similar to Disqus, where each unique user can "flag" the post even if someone else already did, and if enough people flag it, it automatically gets removed pending moderator review. Set the threshold high enough (say, at least 30-40) without revealing what it actually is, and the potential for abuse is minimized, while genuine crap gets removed very quickly.

Ok guys, we've put new spam-blocking measures tied into our registration form. It's an automatic check against a database of known spammer accounts. This should ease both the forum and the frontpage comment spamming, since they're tied together.

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